Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-21

8 900, 600 people free govern ment under
Victor Emmanuel. Garibsldi, after be-
ing
ABSENT TWO YEARS
from Caprers, returned and, when he sp-
preached it, he found that his kome had
by = ictor Emmanuel as surprise been
EdeniZed. Trimmed sbru Sbery had taken
The place of thorny thickets, gardens the
place OF barrepness, and the Old rookery
in which he once lived had given way
to pictured mansion where Re
lived in comfort the rest OF his days. And
I tell YOU if you will cone and enlist
under the banner of our Victor Emmanuel,
and follow HIM through thick and thin,
and fighJ his battles, and endure his sac
rfices, you viii find after awhile thst He
has changed your heart from jungle Of
thorny skep.icisms into q garden all
abIoor2 with llXurianc Joy that you have
never dreamt Of. From u iaGgI Caprsra
of sadness into Paradise If g ID!
GO not know how your theological
svs TEN went to pieces. It may be that
vOur parents started you with only one
plank, and YOU believe little or nothing.
Or they msy have been too rigid and severe
N religions discipline, & cracked yoU
over ilie OIi w IL Il p>t-i DN'th. II ltat-t
be that some partner in business, VINO
Was q member Of au evangelical church,
PLAYED On yCu trick that disGusIed you
with religion. 1t may be that you have
associates who have take q against Chris
tianjty in your presence until you are call
at sea" and you dwell more on things
that you do not believe than on things
YOU do believe. You are in one respect
like Lord Nelson, when slgnsl was lifted
that he wished to disregard and he put
his sea-glass TO his blind eye aud said: Il
really do not see the signal" O, my
hearer, put this teld-slass Of the Gospel
no longer to your blind eye, and say l
cannot see, but put it to your other eye,
the eye of faith, and you will see Christ,
and he is ell you need to see.
If you can believe nothing else, you GER
tainly believe in
VICARIOUS SUFFERING,
for you see it almost every Gay in some
shape. Last month the steamship knick
erbocker of The Cromwell line, RAINING
between New Orleans and here, was in
great storms, and the captain and crew
saw the schooner Mary d. Cranmer Of
Philadelphia in distress. The weather
cold, the waves mountain high, the first
officer of the steamship and four men put
cut in lifeboat to save the crew OF The
schooner, and reached the vessel and
tpwed it out Of danger, the wind shifting
so that the vessel was saved. But the
five men of the steamship coming back,
their boat capsiZed, Yet r!Ghted aS.in and
Csme on. the ssilgrS COGLtd with ice. The
boat capsized again, and three times up
~,
thrown the poor fellows, "a. their hands
and arms were frozen 50 they cDd.G not
Grasp il, ard q great wave rolled Over
mem, an they went down neye" 10 rise
till ghe sea gives mp its dead. Appreciate
tnGt herui>m and selt-sucIitic@ Ot Tie
brave fellows we sill can, ana cA2 We rot
appreciate the Christ who put out in
more biting cola and into more over
Whelmirg surge TO bring US out Of Infinite
peril INTO everlasting safety? The wave
of human hate rolled over Him from one
side and the wave hellish fury roll ed
over Him on the other. Oh, the thick
ness Of the night ana the thun er OF the
tempest into which Christ plunged for
our rescue.
Come in en- that narrow beam, the
beam of the cross. Let all else 90 and
cling to that Put that under you, and
with the earnestness of swimmer strug-
Cling for his lie put out for shore. There
Is q great warm fire of welcome already
built, and already many who were as far
out as you are, are standing IN its genial
and heavenly glow. The angels of Gods
rescue are wading out into the surf
TO CLUTCH YOUR HAND,
and they know how exhausted you are,
and all the redeemed prodigals Of heaven
are on the beach with new white robes to
clothe all those who come in on broken
pieces of the ship.
My sympathies are for such all the
more because l was naturally skeptiCal,
to question everything about
this Life and the next,
AID was in danger of asing further out to
sea than any of the u asn the Mediteria-
lean breakers, and was sometimes the
annoyance of my theological professor
because l asked so many questions. But
came in on plank. l knew Christ was
he Saviour of sinners, and that | was .
sinner, and | got ashore, and | do not
propose to 90 out on that sea again.
cave not for thirty minutes discussed the
;ortroverted points Of Theology in thirty
7earS. And during the rest OF my life l
10 not propose to discuss them for thirty
seconds.
| would rather, in q mud-sCOw, try to
weather the worst cyclone that ever swept
Up from the Caribbean than risk my i'm
Mortal soul in useless and perilouS dis
,ussions in which some of my brethren
Il the ministry are INDUCING. They re-
mind me of a company of sailors stand
ng on R4mSgate pier-head, from which
he lIfe-b boats are usually launched, and
;Ooly discussing the different style of oar
ockS ard how deep boat ought to set
n the water, while hurricane is in full !
,Iast, and there are thr e steamers |
,rowded with passengers going to pieces !
n the Cfli1g. An old tar, the muscles of /!
lis face working with nervous excite |
nent. cries out: "This is no time to dis
MSS such things. Man the life-hoa |
Who will volunteer? Out with her into !
he surf! Pull, my lads, pull or the
wreck. Hs. ha! Now we have them. |
lift them in and lay them down on the
,ottom of the boat. JIcB, you try to
)ring them too. Put these tlauneis |
round their hands And feet, and l will |
,ull for the shore. God help me!
THERE! LANDED. HUZZA!
When there are so many struggling in .
he waves of sin and sorrow and wretch !
dness, let all else go but salvation for
ime and salvation forever.
| bethink myself that there are some /
ere whose opportunity or whose life is
mere wreck, and they have ONLY small /
'iece left. You started in youth With
IL sails set and everything promised a
rand voyage, but you have Sailed IN the
7rong direction or have touudereo on q
ock. You have only q fraImeDt II lime
eft. Then come in on that one plank.
Some on broken pieces Of the ship"
You admit you are al b oke1 up, one
ecade of your life gore by, two dscsdes.
hree decades, fur decades, hall cen